Welcome to mitchenall.com

mitchenall.com are specialists in providing high-quality, training, consultancy, products and bespoke development for all types of business requirements. As well as providing the training and consultancy services needed to help business get their systems web-enabled, mitchenall.com is also able to host web services (including secure servers for financial transactions) to offer a total web-enabling package.

We maintain a small catalogue of freeware products and we’re currently working at producing high-quality 4D components and plug-ins to help developers add useful functionality to their applications and to help serve as examples for new 4D developers.

Our product library current contains such titles as Expat4D, an open-source 4D plug-in version of the popular expat XML parser, and the mitchenall.com Toolbar Component, an open-source library for creating dynamic toolbars in 4D applications.

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As someone who has developed a lot of websites and regularly has to try and interpret statistics for these websites, there is one trend which I, and I'm sure most other people who do this, have noticed. Google tends to account for about 80-90% of normal page searches, sometimes higher. This is nearly always the case, unless the site is paying for particular pay-per-click compaigns using Overture or something.

But then, Yahoo! is still one of the most popular websites in the world, and it has a search engine, so why is this the case. In fact, in the days before Google, Yahoo! was the clear leader for referrals for the sites I was involved with. So, why is this?

I have a two answers. Firstly, Yahoo! has been far more of a portal site rather than just being a search engine. Although Google are offering lots of additional services at the moment, they all tend to have some search engine involvement, including their fantastic GMail serice. But google first and foremost are a search engine, and the best search engine at that. When you go to the Google home page, you don't site and wait for lots of content to load up which you didn't necessarily want to look at. You get a simple search box with links to the additional services.

The second reason I offer is that somehow, you can't turn the word 'Yahoo!' into a verb so easily. Imagine the conversation between two developers, "hey, do you know how get this thing to work?", 2nd developer: "no, have you 'yahoo!ed' for it?". It just doesn't have the right ring, does it? Whereas the verb, to google, is now established in the English language, and is being incorporated in to many other languages too. If Google can keep on doing what they're doing, and continue providing relevant search results, it seems hard to believe that anyone else is going to be able to knock them off the top spot.

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